Just a fantastic pair of vehicles the police car is sleek, powerful, fast. The crook car is powerful heavily armed and he wants his brother back.

The boys ship is heavily armed with spring missiles. The police hyperspeed cruiser not so much he just flees to safety and lets his awesome engines do the work.

2 great designed ships. Their play is mainly their swooshability against each other. They have 2 of the best villain figs in the line.

A great set

Hyperspeed Pursuit is the last 2009 SPIII set I purchased in order to complete my collection, and it is easily one of my favorite, possibly rivalling my love of the Galactic Enforcer.

PROS

I will begin my review of this set in the way I begin every review of SPIII sets; total compliments to the minifigures. LEGO has outdone themselves in my opinion with these sets because both the criminals and the officers look excellent. The Skull Twins though, are not only my favorite minifigure criminals out of the entire SPIII line, but might quite possibly my favorite Minifigures of all time. They have a thuggish and rather frightening appearance to them and it just works so flawlessly. One thing I did not expect in this set with the Space Police officer to have air tanks. Usually, officers who are piloting vehicles do not have airtanks because they might interfere with the way they sit down in their spacecraft. This has bothered me because I really feel the SPIII officers are COMPLETE when they have them. Since this set's Space Police presence is a big spacecraft, I expected him to not have the air tanks. To my utter surprise, he did! On top of all of that, he could wear them and sit perfectly inside his vehicle at the same time which was really a treat. I feel the dual sided face used for this officer is a little too commonly used in this line but the figure is still fantastic.

The next Pro of this set are the two vehicles. For the first, we have the Space Police VX-Falcon (believe that it's name). It really is a great vehicle which also is built as good as it appears. It's one of SPIII's larger one-man space vehicles and it clearly is a mighty thing; six total laser guns, with the front ones looking considerably formidible. The thrusters on the ship, though rather tedious to build, are quite impressive. They bear a design seen a lot in this toyline of LEGO's and they look just as good on the VX-Falcon. The prison pod on the VX-Falcon is an immediate plus as well. I like those new pods and the "blast open" feature they all have. On top of all of that, this prison pod can be easily taken out and secured back in.

After the VX-Falcon we have the Skull Interceptor. I think this vehicle tops as my favorite gangster vehicle in SPIII. It's rugged, intimidating and just a superbly built machine. What I enjoy about the Black Hole gang's vehicles are their common used of the "four-wing" design with is apparent on the Skull Interceptor. The machine also has two blunt launchers, some of the most powerful weapons LEGO has ever released. With two equipped on it, the Skull Interceptor should have little trouble blasting open a prision pod. It also has four laser guns, each one near a wing. I would have liked to see the Skull Interceptor come with an air-tight cockpit, but I don't get down about that when it comes to the gangster's vehicles because the gangster's are aliens and they probably can survive without oxygen or in space just fine. I will also mention that despite the hassle of stickers (a hassle I truly don't mind), the stickers on the Skull Interceptor are great. Not only do they look believable and boast the Black Hole Gang's symbol, but one of them has a shout out to the old Space line "Insectoids" with the words, "I <3 Insectoids." This is commonly seen on Black Hole Gang vehicles, where shout-outs are made to Blacktron, Spyrius, and several others. I also like the yellow back plate of the Interceptor, which wears the cool word "Zumbi" in cryptic font. The safe with the gold in it is also tightly and securely held in the "trunk" of the Skull Interceptor by a small flap. I would've liked it more if the entire trunk were covered "which it isn't" but since the safe is not at all loose in it, I am totally fine with what LEGO did. As one more thing to add, the roof of the cockpit on the vehicle can easily come off and is easily secured back on.

CONS:

To be thorough, I must state my qualms with this set. First off, on th VX-Falcon, the driver uses a steering handle to drive it. While I don't mind that factor, it is rather annoying to try and position the officer securely inside the ship while having him hold onto the handle. It can be done, but it's difficult, not to mention its equally difficult getting him out. On the Skull Interceptor, I was slightly disappointed that it can really only fit one of the Skull Twins in it, not both. I understand that LEGO intends for one of them to be locked in the prison pod, but when he's released, how on earth (or "how in space") will his comrade be able to hold him? Perhaps in the trunk, but I was hoping he could be fit inside the cockpit, as in perhaps a co-pilot's seat or something of the sort. Also, the Skull Twin who is driving the Skull Interceptor probably can't see too well because an engine piece is smack dab in front of the windshield. That would annoy me, but I'm not the pilot so who knows.

In conclusion, it's truly a fine set. There are some qualms I have with it, but the Pros speak for themselves. After you've completed this set, you'll be left with two incredible models you'll be proud that you built, and some great figures along with it. 5/5 Final score!

Speechless. This set is just awesome in every way.

Minifigures: Again, the space police guy's head is my favorite scared face. As for the skull twins, they are just awesomely amazing.

Building: Great build. It seemed very quick to me for a set with 400+ pieces. (Estimated time if half an hour)

Parts: I rated this 5 because of the round cylinder pieces in transparent orange on the back of the skull twin's craft.

Playability: The best part. The shooting function doesn't work THAT well, but it's 4.7/5 But two ships traiing each other. My favorite. A classic space chase.

Price: About the standard price rate.

Overall: This set is just awesome. In every way. Get it right now.

This set was really good probably because for once there is a fair fight. I like the way they made a red line go across the skull twins ship. And it is easy to fire the missiles. And one the police ship I liked the way they made a security pod to shoot. Overall I thought it was great.

One of the best designed & detailed I've seen. Best ship engines ever on the Police craft. Very cool badguy hotrod... and if you cant figure out how to put both twins in the cab, just have them sit back-to-back. They can always turn their heads to look forward!